Any discussion of the documentation of the crimes of the Soviet Union will inevitably involve Memorial, a Russian organization dedicated to uncovering and archiving the crimes of the Soviet Union. With a database of over 2.65 million names of the victims of Soviet repression, Memorial is the foremost authority in Russia on the lives and stories of those killed by the brutal communist regime. However, Memorial has been the target of substantial legal harassment in Putin’s Russia. A police raid in 2008 and lengthy legal battles over their designation as a “foreign agent” under a 2012 law has made Memorial’s …read more
Source: Victims of Communism